The Cabildo in New Orleans each month assigned a City Magistrate to the municipal market to collect a head tax on beeves sold and on rentals for butcher stalls, chopping blocks, rooms for shops, and peddlers' tables leased in the market. The monthly reports gave an account of monies collected from each source and in addition, indicated the number of cattle slaughtered and sold. Expenses were subtracted from the total collected. The individual documents are interfiled chronologically in the collection.
